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Canada to deport a Nazi sympathizer

PROSECUTION OR PERSECUTION?After being held in a Toronto jail for two years to determine if he's a threat, a court ruled to deport Ernst Zundel back to Germany

AP , TORONTO

The Canadian security certificate law, passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the US, allows the government to hold terrorism suspects without charge, based on secret evidence that does not have to be disclosed to a suspect's defense.

Alan Borovoy, general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association said intelligence authorities may know of criminal offenses by Zundel, which cannot be disclosed for reasons of national security, but the detainment without charge or public evidence smacks of injustice.

"Zundel, I have no difficulty saying, is a nasty, nasty character and everything I'm saying is without the slightest sympathy for him," Borovoy said. "But the process in itself is unfair."

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